free vote
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editfree vote (plural free votes)
- (politics) In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders.
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editvote in which members vote as they see fit — see conscience vote